Fall in love
Lu Yu felt as if his brain was struck by a thunderbolt, and everything went blank in an instant.
Fall in love?
he?
What a joke!
Lu Yu: What nonsense are you talking about! I just saw him alone and with his strange personality, and I was just out of humanitarian concern! It's brotherly love! Do you understand?!
He typed out this line quickly, as if he was trying to convince his sister, or as if he was desperately trying to convince himself.
Lu Yaoyaoyaoyao: Oh, brotherhood [smiles]. Do you feel the same way towards your good brother Zhou Zizhe? Do you feel jealous if he glances at another boy? Do you think about bringing him lunch every day, worried that he won't eat well? Do you feel that your whole day is complete just because he smiles?
Lu Yu: “…”
He was left speechless by his sister's series of soul-searching questions, because he sadly discovered that he really couldn't do it.
He would go drinking with Zhou Zizhe arm in arm, and exchange swear words with his brothers on the court, but he had never been as attentive and cautious towards anyone as he was towards that person. Even a look from the other person could set off a tsunami in his heart.
【Lu Yu: I...】
He typed a word and deleted it. He felt that all his excuses seemed so pale and powerless in front of Lu Yao's X-ray-like insight.
Lu Yaoyaoyaoyao: Okay, stop struggling, my dear brother. You didn't even tell me if the other person was a man or a woman, just using him as a pronoun, and subconsciously using brotherhood as a shield. I, your sister, have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice, and I've supported more couples than anyone you know. I can smell your little tricks with my eyes closed.
After reading this last paragraph, Lu Yu's head buzzed and he woke up instantly.
I was so busy defending myself that I subconsciously used him! I directly exposed his gender!
The shame and panic of being caught red-handed instantly overwhelmed him.
Lu Yu: Damn it! No! I said it wrong! It was her! She! Typo!
He explained hurriedly, wishing he could rush over and delete all the chat history from his sister's phone.
Lu Yaoyaoyaoyao: [Leisurely Drinking Tea.jpg]
Lu Yaoyaoyaoyao: Oh? Really? Then why didn't you just say it was her? The more you try to hide something, the more obvious it becomes. Do you understand?
Lu Yu completely gave up struggling. He threw his phone onto the sofa and buried his face deeply in the pillow. He felt like a plucked ostrich.
After a long while, he picked up the phone again and typed out a line of words in a tone of almost giving up.
[Lu Yu: ...Sister, you're not angry? Or...don't you think I'm weird?]
This time, Lu Yao responded quickly.
Lu Yaoyaoyaoyao: Angry? Why should I be angry? My dear silly brother has finally come to his senses and realized that he likes someone. I can't contain my joy! As for being weird...
Lu Yaoyaoyaoyao: I like it, so it's not strange. It's just like thunder and rain, a natural phenomenon. Do you think the weather is strange just because it's raining today?
Her understated yet powerful metaphor was like a warm current, instantly soothing most of Lu Yu's panic and anxiety. He had never imagined that his feelings, which he regarded as a scourge, could be so easily accepted by his sister.
Before he could finish being moved, Lu Yao's next message popped up, instantly breaking the warm atmosphere.
Lu Yaoyaoyaoyao: But having said that, you have a pretty good eye! After all these years of being stuck, once you finally do, you skip the Novice Village and go straight to Hell Mode? Tell me, who on earth is this person who could possibly take in a clueless, wooden-headed person like you?
Lu Yaoyaoyaoyao: Quick! Send the photos over! Let me, your sister, take a look and see just how good-looking my sister-in-law is!
Lu Yu: “…”
He felt like his feelings were just wasted. He seriously suspected that his sister was so calm because she regarded this incident as the most authentic and exciting gossip in her CP-shopping career.
【Lu Yu: Shut up! 】
He replied unhappily, then locked his phone and threw it aside.
He stood up from the sofa irritably and paced back and forth in the room.
In the living room, the sound of the television and his parents' conversation became distant. In his world, there was only his heartbeat like a drum and the question that kept circling in his mind.
I really like a guy?
This realization, like a sudden storm, shattered all the knowledge and order he had built up over the past eighteen years. He felt like he was standing on a shaky ice floe, with the bottomless, icy water beneath his feet, and all around him was a vast white fog, making him unable to find his way.
He raised his head from the pillow in frustration, grabbed his phone, and wanted to reply to his sister, "You know shit!", but he deleted every word he typed. Continuing to argue would only make him look even more guilty.
By the way, go find Zhou Zizhe.
Lu Yu suddenly felt that he needed a little "normal" hormone shock to wash away the chaotic panic in his mind. He needed to go to a place full of alcohol, music and beautiful girls to prove to himself that he was still the same Lu Yu.
He jumped up from the sofa, grabbed his coat and car keys, and rushed out of the house without even saying goodbye to his parents.
"Hello, Azhe? What are you doing?" He dialed Zhou Zize's number while walking towards the garage.
On the other end of the line, deafening music and noisy voices rang out. A laughing voice shouted at the top of its lungs, "Fuck, Lu Yu? What can I do? I'm at MUSE! Didn't you say you wanted to be a good boy at home? How did you come to your senses? Come over here? I'll get you a booth and show you the hottest girls in Jiangcheng!"
"Okay, send me the address and I'll be there right away." Lu Yu agreed without thinking.
He now urgently needs to use the simplest and most brutal methods to verify his orientation and put out the fire that is burning more and more fiercely in his heart.
Half an hour later, Lu Yu stood under the huge, shimmering sign of MUSE. This nightclub, located in the busiest area of the city center, was a famous den of debauchery in Jiangcheng and the home of people like Zhou Zizhe.
Lu Yu actually didn't like this kind of place, but at the moment he needed this kind of noise to numb himself.
As soon as he walked through the door that separated the two worlds, he was led to a booth on the second floor by a scantily clad waiter. Zhou Zizhe was slumped unsteadily on the sofa, holding a heavily made-up girl in his arms.
"You're great! You came quickly!" Zhou Zizhe whistled when he saw him, pushed the girl in his arms aside, stood up, and gave Lu Yu a big hug.
"Stop talking nonsense and give me the strongest drink." Lu Yu sat down and said directly.
"Hey, what's wrong? Who made our Young Master Lu unhappy?" Zhou Zizhe keenly noticed that his mood was not right. He snapped his fingers, called the waiter, and then came over and asked with a gossipy look on his face, "Did some junior school girl dump him during military training?"
"Get lost." Lu Yu unhappily picked up the wine that had just been served and took a large gulp. The spicy liquid burned his throat, but it did nothing to clear his confused mind.
"Alright, alright, enough joking around." Seeing him like this, Zhou Zizhe also put away his playful smile. "Tell me, what's wrong? You look so lifeless, you must be trapped in love. Let me guess, is it because of that..."
Before he could finish his words, there was a small commotion outside the booth.
A man in a white shirt stumbled over, holding a glass of wine. He was incredibly handsome, with skin as white as porcelain and a pair of sparkling, peach-shaped eyes. With a hint of drunkenness, he looked like a fragile beauty, almost androgynous.
He walked straight to Zhou Zizhe's side, slammed the wine glass in his hand onto the table, and complained in a coquettish tone: "Zhou Zizhe! Where have you been again? You said you would play with me, but in the blink of an eye, you disappeared!"
Lu Yu was stunned.
He looked at the boy in front of him, then looked at Zhou Zize, his eyes full of confusion.
When Zhou Zizhe saw the boy, his expression changed instantly. His cynical expression disappeared without a trace, replaced by an expression Lu Yu had never seen before.
"I'm here to see my brother, baby." Zhou Zizhe put his arm around the boy's shoulders and whispered in his ear, "Come, let me introduce you. This is my brother Lu Yu. Lu Yu, this is... Chen Ran."
The boy named Chen Ran then turned his gaze towards Lu Yu. He looked Lu Yu up and down, then snorted at Zhou Zizhe like a cat whose toy had been snatched away: "Your brother? He looks like a decent person, why is he hanging out with someone like you?"
"Hey! How can you talk like that!" Zhou Zize didn't care. Instead, he smiled and pinched his cheek. The action was so intimate that Lu Yu got goosebumps.
Next, Lu Yu fell into an extremely strange state of being watched.
He looked at his best friend Zhou Zize, the little prince of nightclubs who was known for walking among flowers without getting a single leaf on him. At this moment, he was like a tamed large dog, trying his best to please the boy named Chen Ran.
When Shen Ran said the wine was not tasty, Zhou Zizhe immediately asked the waiter to replace it with the most expensive champagne.
Chen Ran said the music was too loud, and Zhou Zizhe almost called the DJ over to change the disc on the spot.
Chen Ran even took a piece of fruit from Zhou Zizhe's plate without any hesitation in front of Lu Yu, and then fed it back into Zhou Zizhe's mouth with the fork.
Lu Yu: “…”
He felt like he hadn't checked the almanac before going out tonight. He'd originally come to his brother to work through his confusion about same-sex relationships, but instead, his brother was actually giving him a much more vivid lesson in the real world. He felt like a random person who'd stumbled onto someone else's film set, so embarrassed that he nearly dug his toes through the soles of his shoes.
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